Popping Zits, Tanning & Boozing: It's OK (Sometimes)

When you only have two options, and both are bad, which should you choose? Our experts weigh in on the beauty version of "Would You Rather?"

The Problem: You Get a Zit Before a Big Event It happens to the best of us: You follow your skin care regimen to the letter, but alas, you wake up on the day of a big event with a blemish. A pimple. A big, fat zit. In a (totally informal, in-office) poll, six out of seven Total Beauty employees said that they would rather endure a torrential downpour on their wedding day than walk down the aisle with a pimple. Since, in real life, you can't trade pimples for pouring down rain, you have one of two (not-so-great) options:

Would you rather be four feet tall or eight feet tall? Deaf or blind? Poor and beautiful or rich and ugly? If you've ever played the game "Would You Rather," you've probably contemplated similar hypothetical dilemmas.

But when you encounter a real-life dilemma in your beauty routine, what option do you choose? And what are the consequences? We put together a list of some of the most common beauty sins (popping a pimple vs. concealing it, tanning beds vs. tanning outside and drinking booze vs. drinking liquor) and investigated just how bad they really are for your body. Think of it as Would You Rather?: Beauty Edition.